Laboratories
Our laboratories are used for teaching and research and are well equipped, pleasant and spacious, with a team of dedicated and excellent technical staff.
Our technicians look after the laboratories and are very experienced in the fabrication and construction of lab and pilot scale equipment. Their skills are used extensively to support both undergraduate and postgraduate laboratory requirements.
Recently, we invested £500,000 in the refurbishment of the Millennium Laboratory which is dedicated to undergraduate teaching. The Millennium Lab is equipped with:
- modern bench-top experimental equipment,
- interactive video teaching system with projection facilities,
- a number of high specification fume cupboards for handling volatile chemicals.
We also have a bioprocessing laboratory and a pilot plant laboratory recently upgraded with larger scale process equipment, which are used in undergraduate Stage 2 and 3 practical classes. In addition to typical pilot scale equipment associated with Chemical Engineering, we have invested £150,000 in developing rigs that facilitate teaching and research into process control and automation techniques. These rigs are equipped with industrial standard instrumentation and are all linked to a modern distributed control system.
Final year undergraduate students on the MEng programme have access to our state-of-the-art research laboratory facilities where they can undertake a project as part of the on-going research activities in the School.
Take a virtual tour of the School and our facilities, including some of our laboratories.